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xviii An increasing family and the expenses consequent thereon, the want of stipendiary occupation, and the failure of his publication of the " Fasti," seem to have involved him in pecuniary embarrassments which compelled him to sell the manor of White Roothing, the principal part of his paternal inheritance. Notwithstanding his want of success with the "Fasti," he published in 1716 the "Life of Dr. Field, Dean of Gloucester ;'" and in 1717 a single volume, "intended as a specimen of a much larger work," of his "Monumenta," and containing epitaphs of persons then recently deceased, (from 1700 to 1715.) This was followed in 1718 by two more volumes, which embraced the period from 1650 to 1699. In 1719 he brought out two other volumes, designed as supplementary, and extending the series from 1600 to 1718. He speaks, in his preface to these last, of having made collections